Few dishes encourage as a lot competitiveness as chili: Beans, meat, even spaghetti make appearances — or are fully verboten — relying on the place you’re and the place the cook dinner’s allegiances lie. At F&W, we’re chili cosmopolitans and welcome all recipes to our desk. This beloved one-pot stew has innumerable iterations for good cause: It’s a meal in a bowl, it may feed a crowd, and it is reliably scrumptious (regardless of the type). Chicken chili particularly brings a number of the healthful savory depth of any hen soup to the heat, complexity, and heartiness of chili. It’s additionally an effective way to make use of up leftover hen (or floor turkey).
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Spicy Chicken Chili
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From Food & Wine’s Quick From Scratch Chicken cookbook, this recipe is filled with beans, tomatoes, and smoky spices. Juicy hen thighs simmer with jalapeños, cumin, and oregano, making a tomato-rich base layered with warmth and depth. Pinto and black beans give physique, whereas garnishes like cilantro and cornbread spherical out a comfy, crowd-pleasing meal. Plus, it may be on the desk in below an hour.
Chicken with Chile
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Best eaten heaped on heat tortillas with a facet of creamy mayocoba beans, this hearty salsa delivers chili-worthy depth of taste and full-belly satisfaction. The recipe, from Mexican-born vintner Lorena Herrera (cofounder of Napa’s Mi Sueño vineyard), is filled with serranos, jalapeños, and chiles de árbol cooked with shredded hen and charred tomato. It’s prepared in an hour and 35 minutes.
Marry Me White Chicken Chili
Food & Wine / Sara Haas
A riff on Marry Me Chicken, this hen chili simmers tangy sun-dried tomatoes and golden-seared hen thighs in a velvety bean-thickened broth. Cannellini beans and a fast dusting of flour give the stew physique with out a great deal of cream. Ready in simply 50 minutes, it tastes even higher the following day.
Award-Winning Chili
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This Kansas City cook-off champion from Todd and Nancy Walters has earned a long time of chili devotion. A cheese-heaped mix of tender hen, aromatic spices, and creamy beans makes it successful for each tailgates and make-ahead dinners. Prepare for an extended simmer: It takes slightly below 2 hours to organize.
White Chicken Chili
Jennifer Causey / Food Styling by Margaret Monroe Dickey / Prop Styling by Lydia Pursell
This hen chili is each creamy and spicy, and delivers bowlfuls of taste in simply 45 minutes. Navy beans and chopped corn tortillas thicken the broth, whereas a mixture of jalapeños, inexperienced chiles, and cayenne brings mild warmth. Finish with cilantro, avocado, bitter cream, and crunchy radishes or crushed tortilla chips.
Chicken Chili with Beer and Hominy
Sarah Bolla
Beer and hominy set this hen chili from San Diego–primarily based chef Sara Bolla aside, giving it a malty depth and chewy texture that play superbly in opposition to the tender shredded meat. Plus, it may be on the desk in simply 45 minutes. Serve it with bitter cream, recent onions, and cilantro.
Chicken Chile Verde
John Kernick
Chef Deborah Schneider’s chile verde shines with a tangy, vibrant tomatillo sauce simmered with tender hen. Garnished with creamy avocado and a dollop of bitter cream, every bowl balances warmth with cooling richness. Versatile sufficient to swap in pork, tofu, or greens, it’s a shiny, adaptable tackle chili that is prepared in an hour.
Turkey and Pinto Bean Chili
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Beloved by Oprah, this turkey and pinto bean chili from her former private chef Art Smith layers in carrots, peppers, tomatoes, and a splash of lager, constructing a hearty, flavorful base. Simmered with thyme and completed with chives, it takes an hour and quarter-hour to get on the desk. Ground turkey may be simply substituted with floor hen.
Black-Bean Turkey Chili
John Kernick
Houston-based chef Ronnie Killen’s tackle a lighter chili packs in loads of taste whereas preserving issues balanced. Lean floor turkey (or hen, in case you choose), earthy black beans, and a daring spice combine simmer collectively for a deeply satisfying stew. Great to make forward, it is able to go in an hour and a half.
